Wednesday, May 16, 2012
See Los Angeles City Council member and mayoral candidate Jan Perry in conversation before a live audience at Cal-State Northridge.
(If video window doesn't appear, refresh the page.) Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry cruised through a list of issues at Cal State Northridge Tuesday in the second of the "Talking About Los Angeles" series of interviews with mayoral candidates. Moderator Christine Essel, the CEO for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, started off the event by saying that she had known Perry for 20 years. Questioned by Essel, Perry touched on redevelopment, jobs, housing, transit, education, pensions and the city's budget deficit. Patch is a co-sponsor of the series, which was organized by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a Latino voter participation organization; and Cerrell Associates, a Los Angeles political …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The city councilwoman will be the second mayoral candidate interviewed in the Talking About Los Angeles series. Questions from Patch readers will be presented to Perry.
A series of conversations with Los Angeles mayoral candidates continues Tuesday evening with an interview of Councilwoman Jan Perry that will be shown via a live video stream you can watch on this Patch site. The interview, the second in the "Talking About Los Angeles" series, begins at 5:30 p.m. before an audience in The Grand Salon of California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. (See attached PDF map.) If you would like to attend the event, you can register on the Talking About Los Angeles website. The moderator for the event will be Christine Essel, the CEO for Los Angeles’ Community Redevelopment Agency. She’s a former senior vice president of government and community affairs for Paramount Pictures and had been an …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
The state assembly district candidate shares her views on issues with the Pali Community Council.
Torie Osborn, a California Assembly District 50 candidate, attended the Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting Thursday where she discussed issues affecting the community. Osborn, a Santa Monica resident for 27 years, has worked as a community organizer and a policy adviser to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa. "It was a painful experience to see the results of 30 years of steady cuts of government and what it was like to be inside the starved beast of government after 30 years of steady erosion," Osborn commented on working in the mayor's office. "I became convinced that we need both serious governance reform and serious tax reform." Questions for Osborn from the community council were on issues that included the state budget, …
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The Los Angeles mayoral candidate steps on the field to kick off the campaign fundraiser on May 6.
According to The Daily Truffle, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti threw out the first ball at a polo match on May 6 at Will Rogers State Historic Park. The event was a luncheon for members of The Supper Club, a social club with members in New York, Los Angeles, London and more. The match also served as a fundraiser for the current L.A. city councilman's campaign, said The Daily Truffle report.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Hollywood's heavy hitters attend the event held at George Clooney's Studio City-area home Thursday night.
President Barack Obama left Los Angeles Friday for Reno, NV, after spending the previous evening at actor George Clooney's home for what is believed to have been the most lucrative fundraiser for a U.S. presidential candidate. But before leaving town, the president got in an early morning workout—playing basketball with some staff members, along with Clooney and Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire. The president was driven to the Cheviot Hills Recreation Center around 6:45 a.m. for the roughly one-hour game, then taken back to the Beverly Hilton, where he was staying. He was later ushered to Los Angeles International Airport, with Air Force One departing around 10 a.m. DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Katzenberg, one ofthe …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Austin Beutner in an email to supporters says the responsibilities of being a husband and father is at odds with the demands of a campaign.
Austin Beutner, the 2013 mayoral candidate who formerly served as a deputy mayor and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, announced Tuesday that he is dropping out of the race. Beutner in an email sent to his supporters said he was leaving the race "to be engaged with my family in a way which is at odds with the demands of a campaign." Beutner, 52, thanked his supporters and said all campaign contributions will be returned to donors. He said the nation's second-largest city will only reach its potential if city leaders rise to its challenges and make the right choices. "We need to fix our schools because good public education is a civil right and the foundation of our future. We need to create solutions to the …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for California's 50th Assembly District seat, which includes Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Brentwood, Westwood, Hollywood, Agoura Hills, Malibu and the Pacific Palisades?
Want to know Assembly candidates' takes on an issue as local as the dredging of the Malibu Lagoon or an expensive state project such as high speed rail? With the June 5 primary election date inching closer, campaigns for the 50th Assembly District are kicking into high gear, and, Patch, too, is revving up its coverage. In the coming weeks, editors will interview each candidate (willing) about biographical information and where they stand on important concerns. Reader input and suggestions will play an important role in coverage, so we would like to hear from you: What questions do you want us to ask the candidates? Here's the field for the June 5 primary with links to the candidates' campaign Web sites or Facebook page so you can get …
Monday, April 30, 2012
The forum is from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in Santa Monica. It is free and open to the public.
Residents of the 50th Assembly District, including the communities of Santa Monica, Malibu, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Pacific Palisades, Hollywood and Agoura Hills, are invited to a forum Saturday to learn more about the candidates' positions on education and other issues. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board Room, at 1651 16th St. in Santa Monica. Each of the June 5 primary candidates are scheduled to participate: Richard Bloom, Democrat; Betsy Butler, Democrat; Torie Osborn, Democrat; and Bradly S. Torgan, Republican. The focus of the discussion will be on quality public education from the early years through high school graduation. Candidates will also …
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
What would you like Patch to ask the candidates running for the 33rd Congressional District seat, which includes Santa Monica, Venice, the Beach Cities, Beverly Hills, Palos Verdes, Brentwood, Westwood and the Pacific Palisades.
Patch will be querying the candidates vying for the 33rd Congressional District as the June 5 primary election campaigns shift into high gear. Rep. Henry Waxman, a staunchly Democratic candidate who has served in Congress since 1975, is the front-runner and earlier this month reported having more than six times as much cash to spend then his next opponent ahead of the primary. We'll be gathering biographical information and presenting the candidates with a questionnaire to help voters understand where they stand on the issues. The 33rd Congressional District was redrawn to reflect population changes reported in the 2010 U.S. Census and now includes Beverly Hills, cuts east to Malibu and then stretches south down the coast and includes …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Current Assemblywoman Betsy Butler has the most cash on hand, followed closely by Torie Osborn in the election for the 50th Assembly District.
With sizable donations from unions and colleagues at the state Capital, first-term state legislator Betsy Butler is boasting the biggest campaign war chest in the race for the 50th Assembly District. Butler reported having $463,687 on hand in the most recent filings with the Secretary of Sate ahead of the June 5 primary. While firefighter and labor unions, lawmakers and political action committees cut Butler big checks, she wasn’t the only candidate to rake in more than a quarter of a million dollars from January to mid-March. And, she wasn’t spending the most, either. Torie Osborn—the grassroots organizer who snagged endorsements this winter from most of the area’s local Democratic clubs—reported $429,450 and outspent Butler by $28,679 …
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12:52 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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